CityView Magazine

4 | Januar y 2020 E D I T O R ' S C O R N E R I 've loved jigsaw puzzles for as long as I can remember. e dumping of the pieces onto a large table, the meticulous turning of each piece so that the front sides face up, the searching for the straight edges of the border pieces. e intrigue in seeing how the design will look when it's complete. Not everyone in my family shares either my enjoyment for a good puzzle or the hours of sitting still required to complete a big one. It has been, however, one of the great satisfactions of my life to find that my 7-year-old granddaughter loves them too. We've already spent a lot of time in her young life sitting in companionable silence, studying pieces imprinted with Disney characters, seashells, and, most recently, Christmas ornaments. I always like to save the last, triumphant pieces for her to put into place. But then again, sometimes the pieces just don't come together the way they should to result in one complete, perfect picture. Sometimes, a piece will go missing amidst the scrum of everyday living. We'll find one months later, keeping company under the sofa with a couple of dust balls, a stray sock and some pistachio shells. More than once, someone's drinking glass has tumbled, spilling liquid onto some of pieces. I'll just go ahead and tell you that wine and puzzle pieces do not mix. Sometimes, inexplicably, the puzzle just wasn't manufactured correctly from the start. e pieces, dry or not, were doomed from the beginning. ey were never going to fit, a fact that was impossible to realize until the bitter end. It occurs to me that life sometimes turns out to be much that same way. e best-laid plans, the perfect pieces, may seem to be coming together just fine. But then, well, for one reason or another, they don't. Sometimes, it's impossible to see what's going to happen until you realize something's missing, or something just isn't working. Aer nearly six decades of living, more than 30 years of marriage and almost 30 years of parenting, I can say that it's a darn good thing that I enjoy puzzles – life oen seems like one confounding, bemusing, oen entertaining puzzle aer another. ankfully, the joy found in those moments when life's pieces fit together makes it always worth the effort and the time spent working, worrying, praying over those precious pieces. I'm excited to arrive here at CityView aer a long career in journalism. It's a beautiful magazine, offering the opportunity to tell the stories of our hometown and the chance to work with a team of talented people. is seems to me to be one of those times when the pieces fit together in just the right way. Kim

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